Ananda Giri Quotes & Sayings

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction. — Julian Beck

Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being beautiful in your own kind of way-tena bentley — The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints

A city obsessed by its ghosts seems to be weighted down by a conflicted view of the past. Something close to melancholy: a weight it can't quite let go of, a lingering sadness. And though we don't often think of the United States in these terms, this melancholy is as much a part of our history as our triumphs. — Colin Dickey

Industrial societies can only be run successfully by dictators or oligarchs. — Dora Russell

If it weren't for radio programs like 'The George Jarkesy Show,' no one would know about 'The Amateur'. — Edward Klein

The choice of Blaine "speaks badly for the intelligence of the mass of my party," he ruefully continued. "It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred; but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, or, what is still worse, the voice of a fool." Still, — Doris Kearns Goodwin

And when funny things happen, you just have to go along, don't you? Because they might never happen again and you'll have missed the joke of it, missed the fun, and then when you're old and your kittens ask you what you did when the world had its glad rags on, you won't have nothing to say, will you? — Catherynne M Valente

There's never going to be anyone else for me. That's just how it is. — Cassandra Clare

She doesn't usually back down that easily."
"Maybe she's got class."
Eve snorted. "Trust me," she said. "That girl's got no class at all. — Rachel Caine

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice. — Boris Kodjoe